At the end of every December, people make all kinds of resolutions for the coming year. Typically, these are things they want to improve about themselves, ways to make their day-to-day personal or work life better, or ideas to put them on track for a change. Many times these surface as a result of mistakes made in the past 12 months.

As happy as most folks are about the chance to buy a new home, “fun” is not a word commonly used to describe house hunting. Many complications can cloud the fun, such as Loan approvals, interest rates, ten vs. twenty year mortgages — the pressure is definitely on, and by the time you set foot in your first potential home, the numbers dancing around your head can make it difficult to focus on what you actually want your home to look like.